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BRAD HENDERSON earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and an MPW in fiction/poetry from University of Southern California (USC). He now teaches engineering writing at University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) where he is a third-generation faculty.

His father, Jerald M. Henderson, and paternal grandfather, S. Milton Henderson, were both engineering professors who wrote textbooks and specialized in agricultural equipment design. Brad's granddad Milton derived “The Henderson Equation,” a mathematical formula for calculating the drying time of harvested grains.

Brad has worked as a corporate engineer, education consultant, and nightclub drummer. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and the Phi Kappa Phi award winning, rock 'n' roll novel, Drums. Recently, he was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2010)—as one of twelve “literary engineers” currently writing and publishing poetry and fiction in the United States. He is currently working on an engineering writing textbook.